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Prison Arts Collective (PAC), a collaborative based at San Diego State University dedicated to expanding access to the arts to people who are incarcerated in California, today announced a special collaboration with PEN America on the seventh season of Outside:Inside Radio, the PAC podcast that airs weekly on KSPC FM radio, Spotify and Anchor.fm. Each episode will highlight a pair of authors featured in The Sentences that Create Us: Crafting a Writer’s Life in Prison, a collection edited by Caits Meissner, director of PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing Program. These guests include Jo...

Kerri Arsenault grew up in Mexico, Maine, a town that for a century was supported by a paper mill. She will discuss her Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remain s, a personal story, in a Zoom talk from the Cushing Public Library on Wednesday,...

/ For people serving time, books have long been a means of education, self-actualization and connection. Advocates are speaking out about a new policy banning family, friends and third parties from sending books to incarcerated Iowans, who must now buy books themselves and only from approved vendors. Locked up in a cell for 23 hours a day at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, Anji says one way her brother is coping is by reading a book a day. “He's able to receive one book a day. And he's been trying to power through reading one book a day, basically,” she said. “This is going...

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Event part of the UMF Visiting Writers Series. Read Article Contributed photo The University of Maine at Farmington’s celebrated Visiting Writers Series will present nonfiction writer Kerri Arsenault as the popular program’s fourth reader of the season. Arsenault will read from her work in a remote live reading at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 18. The reading will be followed by a remote question-and-answer talkback with the author, according to a news release from UMF. Individuals interested in participating may attend by invitation only. To request an invitation to the virtual reading and...